Position : Project Manager / TEST Manager
Location : Boston, MA (Hybrid)
Experience : 10+ Years
Work type : C2C
PETADATA is currently hiring for the position of Project Manager for one of their clients.
Job Description :
We are looking for an Experienced Project manager (Implementation Testing) to join the Testing team. The role is focused on leading one or more deals focused on end-to-end functional testing in support of our clients and internal business units.
The successful candidate must be skilled in leading multi-year programs consisting of complex business models and flows across front, middle, and back office operating models in both an insourced and outsourced model.
Roles & Responsibilities :
- Responsible for the day-to-day management of executing to milestones and reporting on one or more Test projects.
- Manage Testing-teams with respect to on-time and proper execution of tasks, internal training, control and reporting to Senior Management.
- Day-to-day leadership, management & support of Testing projects.
- Active management through goals, key performance, and quality indicators with a view of improving overall quality and timeliness of Testing delivery.
- Building and maintenance of strong client relationships that enforces the quality of the Service of the organization.
- Building effective relationships with all work streams (Front, Middle Back offices) and other teams.
- Provide functional test analysis, planning, design, execution and reporting for testing assignments.
- Estimation & Milestone planning for the project and provide estimates for the UAT.
- Highlight Risk and issues at management level in a timely manner.
- Ability to identify the issues across teams and bring it to Management attention and bring peace to the team.
- Prepare where required: Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Data, Test Coverage analysis for a given testing assignment.
- Play a lead role in the analysis and reporting of test results, working closely with business, technology, and support areas to investigate and interpret test findings.
- Assist in the reception and quality assurance of the business requirements, solution design and business process documents individual projects.
- Participate in understanding requirements, resolving problems/issues, suggesting solutions, and identifying areas for service improvement.
Required Skills :
- Possesses 10 + years of experience in project management that includes UAT, SIT, Regression and other types of Testing projects, both manual and automated.
- Demonstrable ability to independently create a project plan, charter, forecasting, understanding budget vs actuals, variance analyses, managing stakeholders’ communication, project updates, project deliverables including tracking them to closure.
- Must have working experience in Trade and Order Management Systems across various instrument types.
- Experience in Charles River or any Order Management System is preferable.
- Very good understanding of the Front to Back-office processes.
- Demonstrate abilities to work with people across geographic locations. Expected to be a good communicator in English.
- Possession of decent functional knowledge ( 7 out of 10 on a scale of 1-10, 1 being poor, 10 being excellent ) on the Capital Markets especially Middle Office and Front Office functions.
- Knowledge about the UAT ( User Acceptance Testing ) - end of end – is mandatory.
- Demonstrable ability to highlight project risks and create plans to mitigate them.
- Demonstrable ability to understand, and work on Use Cases, arranging end user demos and creating placeholders for knowledge management.
- Demonstrable ability to train and retain people, promptly highlight people related issues to the senior management determining and delivering appropriate actions.
- Experience in Defect Tracking and Defect Management Tool like HP ALM, JIRA.
- Ability to be instrumental in regular end user client and company's stakeholder updates with regards to the Delivery of the program.
- Deep understanding of work order management and ability to define deliverables.
- Experience in Test Coordination, and Test Status Reporting.
- Experience in writing SQL queries during problem solving and extracting data from various sources.
- Experience in Eagle, Portia, SIMCORP or any Accounting application is preferable.
- Experience in accounting functionalities - Pricing, Corporate Actions, Valuations, collateral, custody reconciliations.
- Ready to work on the ground as needed, flexible and adapt to the changing environment.
Educational Qualification :
Bachelor's/ Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
We offer a professional work environment and are given every opportunity to grow in the Information technology world.
Note :
Candidates required to attend Phone/Video Call / In person interviews and after Selection of candidate (He/She) should go through all background checks on Education and Experience.
Please email your resume to: joelp@petadata.co
After carefully reviewing your experience and skills one of our HR team members will contact you on the next steps.
